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Post by galaxytrash on Oct 31, 2020 7:15:32 GMT -6
Sir Sean Connery is dead at the ripe old age of 90.
he was one hell of an actor.
this is a YT clip of him accepting an award in 2004. for some reason it kind've struck me and i've watched it a few times over the years.
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Post by galaxytrash on Nov 8, 2020 17:38:29 GMT -6
alex trebek has died at 80 years of age, about 19 months after announcing his pancreatic cancer. he died at home just 10 days after recording his last jeopardy episode, managing over 8200 shows across 37 seasons as host of the show. sad news to wake up to. spent many years and many episodes growing up playing jeopardy with family...when the theme song would come on someone would yell "jeopardy" and we'd all fall in to our familiar places around the tv. i'm glad he was still working 10 days before he passed, he couldn't have been suffering too terribly for too long. R.I.P. edit: j-archive.com/for fans of "jeopardy", this is a site with every archived match. i go to this site almost daily to try and keep a few neurons firing inside the gray matter and to reaffirm just how bad i was at the game. dbl. edit: not surprisingly, trebek had strong ties to hockey. www.nhl.com/news/nhl-mourns-loss-of-jeopardy-host-alex-trebek/c-319594978?tid=280751088^^ classic footage. |
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Post by Tater on Nov 9, 2020 0:29:40 GMT -6
Cool stuff GT.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2020 8:14:27 GMT -6
Unfortunately GT he said in interviews that he did suffer greatly, he just never let it show on camera. I know what pancreatic cancer does, as I lost my brother to this disease. Alex Trebek was one of the great game show hosts of all time and Jeopardy will never be the same. His episodes will air until Christmas day, and hopefully a channel like the Game Show Network will pick up at least some of the 37 years of the show to enjoy, as trivia questions never get old.
I hope Jeopardy will be able to find a replacement that can carry on the tradition. But watching it will never be the same.
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Post by hsbob on Nov 9, 2020 8:29:42 GMT -6
YEAH......thanks gt.
I love Jeopardy and I loved Alex!
I have more experience with pancreatic cancer than I'd like to having lost an older brother and brother in law to it and when I heard Alex wasn't to have surgery,I knew we wouldn't have him for long. A diagnoses of the disease is the last thing any patient wants to hear because this monster is the most deadly disease in the world. Both my brother and brother in law were able to have the 'whipple procedure' that takes a 1/3 of this and a 1/3 of that and leaves the recoveree with a new normal but it also offers a chance. The chance can buy a guy 4-5 years before the disease rears it's ugly head again and then it's a matter of time.
Pancreatic cancer has a survival rate of 20% BUT survival means three years after diagnoses so it's basically un-survivable. Both my family members got close to five full years after their surgeries and that's about the best you can ask and both enjoyed the hell out of those five years.
Alex Trebek had a glorious 80 years on the old planet and he was stellar until the end or at least he gave the perception of it. As gt pointed out,he was in the studio Oct 29th but I'm sure his bad days were bad but life's what you make of it.
What is......R.I.P. Alex Trebek!
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Post by galaxytrash on Nov 10, 2020 2:14:54 GMT -6
Might need to crank up the volume a bit.
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Post by galaxytrash on Nov 12, 2020 1:08:20 GMT -6
He was such a nice boy when he left canada....
: )
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Post by galaxytrash on Nov 24, 2020 17:52:07 GMT -6
fred sasakamoose played for the hawks for 11 games in the 1953/54 season. he was the first indigenous nhl player. he died of covid today in prince albert, saskatchewan. sounded like quite a guy. A week before he died, the prairies received and early winter snowstorm and there is video of Fred Sasakamoose on his quad plowing snow. In his hospital room, he wanted to move the way he did at home, touching both sides of the wall in his room 100 times. “He didn’t want to lay down,” Neil Sasakamoose said. “He laid down at 2 o’clock (on Tuesday) and that was it. Fifteen minutes later, he was gone.”www.si.com/hockey/news/fred-sasakamoose-a-triumph-of-courage-and-grace |
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Post by hsbob on Jan 22, 2021 9:29:59 GMT -6
The great 'Hammerin' Hank' has left us......R.I.P. Henry Aaron!
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Post by T-man2010 on Jan 22, 2021 10:38:05 GMT -6
The great 'Hammerin' Hank' has left us......R.I.P. Henry Aaron! What a great player and human being. |
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Post by galaxytrash on Jan 23, 2021 16:42:28 GMT -6
The great 'Hammerin' Hank' has left us......R.I.P. Henry Aaron! i read somewhere that even pete rose would need 1100 more singles to match the amount of total bases aaron had. |
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Post by galaxytrash on Sept 14, 2021 17:28:56 GMT -6
R.I.P. norm macdonald, dead at 61.
battled cancer for 10 years and apparently kept it extremely private.
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Post by steamer on May 27, 2022 9:35:20 GMT -6
Ray Liotta at 67 - yikes! He had not looked all that healthy the last couple times I saw him on TV but 67 is way too young and sounding younger and younger all the time.
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Post by phill9 on Oct 28, 2022 14:23:40 GMT -6
Jerry Lee Lewis died at the age of 87. Great Balls of Fire......Had his career fall off after marrying his 13 year old cousin.
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Post by T-man2010 on Oct 28, 2022 14:38:05 GMT -6
Jerry Lee Lewis died at the age of 87. Great Balls of Fire......Had his career fall off after marrying his 13 year old cousin. I thought he had died 40 years ago. |
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Post by vadarx on Oct 28, 2022 16:05:34 GMT -6
Jerry Lee Lewis died at the age of 87. Great Balls of Fire......Had his career fall off after marrying his 13 year old cousin. I thought he had died 40 years ago. same. when I saw that I was like "huh?" no clue he was still alive... regardless, RIP. |
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Post by galaxytrash on Oct 28, 2022 16:31:02 GMT -6
"the killer" did pretty good reaching 87 considering his lifestyle.
add me to the list of those who thought he'd already passed.
anyways, this song's been covered to death but it's my favorite JLL number.
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Post by phill9 on Oct 28, 2022 18:29:26 GMT -6
Jerry Lee Lewis died at the age of 87. Great Balls of Fire......Had his career fall off after marrying his 13 year old cousin. I thought he had died 40 years ago. |
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Post by galaxytrash on Nov 1, 2022 3:59:02 GMT -6
RIP john candy who was born 72 years ago today.
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Post by steamer on Nov 2, 2022 2:20:30 GMT -6
RIP john candy who was born 72 years ago today. One of a kind! Makes me laugh thinking about him. |
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Post by galaxytrash on Nov 30, 2022 17:56:51 GMT -6
RIP christine mcvie, dead at 79.
it shouldn't surprise me she was that old but it does. she was the oldest one in fleetwood mac but the rest are all well into their 70s as well.
sad news to wake up to.
listening to YT just now they are saying that on F.M.'s greatest hits album that she wrote 7 of the 16 tracks.
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Post by hsbob on Dec 24, 2022 10:15:54 GMT -6
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Post by tincup on Jan 11, 2023 23:42:13 GMT -6
Yeah, another one gone. The guitar player’s guitarist.
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Post by hsbob on Jan 12, 2023 10:50:49 GMT -6
I was fortunate enough to see Jeff Beck at the Chicago theatre back in October and he was as impressive as ever @78..... www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV9bnaqqfq8This guy puts it better than I can. |
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Post by T-man2010 on Jan 12, 2023 10:55:05 GMT -6
I saw Beck back at old Comiskey park in 1976 I think it was. |
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Post by phill9 on Jan 12, 2023 20:21:44 GMT -6
Elvis daughter Lisa Marie dies at 54. Possible cardiac arrest
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Post by angoti on Jan 12, 2023 20:25:12 GMT -6
I saw Beck at both places… he was at comiskey.. with Rick Derrenger and Aero Smith and Jan hammer.. back in those days they say if you remember things you weren’t there… lol I remember Beck was playing when someone set a fire in the upper deck of left field that got pretty big… Beck asked in the microphone what should he do..looking back at his band and the crowd said play.. and he played to the flames roaring.. That was the years of jazz fusion.. guys like Stanley Clark, Chic Corea, Al Dimeola.. Jean-Luc panty great drummer Billy Cobham … and of course my man Frank Zappa..and many more. edit: one of my favorite albums from Beck is “Blow by Blow”… that’s some bad ass music… “I got my head out the window and my bear feet on the ground”…. Great lyrics..  )) |
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Post by angoti on Jan 12, 2023 20:25:49 GMT -6
Elvis daughter Lisa Marie dies at 54. Possible cardiac arrest Just heard that.. |
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Post by angoti on Jan 12, 2023 22:12:38 GMT -6
The Jeff Beck group album, and the song Going down was another great song..
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Post by T-man2010 on Jan 12, 2023 22:16:43 GMT -6
I saw Beck at both places… he was at comiskey.. with Rick Derrenger and Aero Smith and Jan hammer.. back in those days they say if you remember things you weren’t there… lol I remember Beck was playing when someone set a fire in the upper deck of left field that got pretty big… Beck asked in the microphone what should he do..looking back at his band and the crowd said play.. and he played to the flames roaring.. That was the years of jazz fusion.. guys like Stanley Clark, Chic Corea, Al Dimeola.. Jean-Luc panty great drummer Billy Cobham … and of course my man Frank Zappa..and many more. edit: one of my favorite albums from Beck is “Blow by Blow”… that’s some bad ass music… “I got my head out the window and my bear feet on the ground”…. Great lyrics.. )) I still got my ticket stub to that concert at comisky. Also saw Chick Corea with, return to forever, Clarke, DeMeola... And Zappa 17 times in the 70's and 80's. |
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